mikve · gathering; hope

What it means

mikve (מִקְוֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “gathering; hope”.

Gathering of waters: the place where they collect, a pool. Also hope, something waited for.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is awaited with confidence; YHWH is Israel's hope.
2. Water gathered in one place, like a pool or the seas.
3. A region horses came from.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hope ×5
• Kue ×4
• gathering ×1
• holding a collection ×1
• reservoirs ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Jeremiah×3

• Genesis 1:10

  And Elohim called the dry ground “Earth,” and the gathering of the waters he called “Seas.” And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Exodus 7:19

  YHWH said to Moses, “Say to Aaron, ‘Take your staff and stretch out your hand over the waters of Egypt, over their rivers, over their canals, over their pools, and over all the reservoirs of their water, that they may become blood; and there will be blood in all the land of Egypt, both in vessels of wood and in vessels of stone.’”

• Leviticus 11:36

  But a spring or a cistern holding a collection of water shall be clean, but whoever touches their carcasses will be unclean.

• 1 Kings 10:28

  And the source of the horses that belonged to Solomon was from Egypt and from Kue; the merchants of the king would take them from Kue at a price.

• 1 Chronicles 29:15

  For we are resident aliens before you and temporary residents, like all our fathers; like a shadow are our days on the earth, and there is no hope.

• 2 Chronicles 1:16

  The source of the horses that Solomon had was from Egypt and from Kue; the king’s merchants would take them from Kue at a price.

• Ezra 10:2

  Then Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, answered and said to Ezra, “We have been unfaithful to our Elohim and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land; but now there is hope for Israel concerning this.

• Jeremiah 14:8

  Hope of Israel, its Savior in the time of distress, why should you be like a resident alien in the land, and like a traveler who turns aside to spend the night?

• Jeremiah 17:13

  Hope of Israel, YHWH, all who abandon you will be put to shame; and those who turn away from me will be written in the earth, for they have abandoned the fountain of living waters, YHWH.

• Jeremiah 50:7

  All who found them devoured them, and their adversaries said, “We are not guilty, because they have sinned against YHWH, the dwelling of righteousness, and the hope of their fathers, YHWH.”

And 2 more times.